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... type=mac-x86_64 Open Office http://www.openoffice.org/product/mac.html Cheers for now John from 33820 posted: 18 Oct 2019 15:59 from: Gordon S Thanks John. My wife and I have worked on Word and Excel for years, so we are both well versed. I doubt that we would want to have to learn a whole new package unless there was a guarantee all our our existing documents will be compatible. Open Office may have the same problem according to various Mac forums and until they develop a 64 bit version, it is unlikely to be compatible with Catalina. Last edited on 18 Oct 2019 16:01 by Gordon S posted: 18 Oct 2019 16:22 from: Dave Summers Getting back to Templot, I have used Crossover to occasionally run PC software on my Mac- Templot being one of them. Crossover issued a warning on 7th October: "If you use CrossOver for macOS, this information is VERY IMPORTANT for you. Earlier today, Apple released the new macOS Catalina. Catalina does not ...
... topic: 2454 Admin: please help me test a new video format posted: 8 May 2014 16:23 from: Martin Wynne Dear all, I have been experimenting with a new interactive format for the Templot tutorial videos. The FBR format (FlashBack Recording) is developed by UK company Blueberry Software. The name FlashBack is misleading -- for our purpose this is a Windows executable format similar to the existing Camtasia screen videos, it's not related to Adobe Flash files on web sites. But unlike Camtasia it can include some useful interactive functions, and the video editor is much quicker and easier to use, at least for me. I would be grateful if you would help me test this, and report any issues arising. The first thing to do is to download and install version 209b of Templot. This will install the FlashBack player in your Templot program folder. Here's the file: http://85a.co.uk/fbr/templot_209b_setup.exe I will then post a test FBR file for you to download and try. (There are no other ...
... a turnout in whichever of the two roads of the Y is the main route, and then adjust it with F5 and F6 mouse actions until it matches the required diverging route. Be sure to change the V-crossing type to curviform. Achieving a perfectly symmetrical split-deflection Y-turnout is a bit more tricky, but there is a tutorial about that at: http://www.templot.com/martweb/y_symm.htm It's a bit out-of-date, and some of the methods have been made easier by later developments in Templot, but it should help you if you find an ordinary contraflexure turnout won't fit. More about the relevant recent changes at: topic 603- message 3398 regards, Martin. posted: 1 Apr 2010 11:32 from: BruceNordstrand Martin Wynne wrote: BruceNordstrand wrote: What would be the best way to start with my Y turnouts within the knowledge that I am a Templot minnow. Or, should I just forget the whole idea and just use the rails to build the turnouts once it is printed. Hi ...
104. Possible Bugs?
... -- can you provide some system details? What else is running at the same time? Do the problems start immediately or only after Templot has been running for a while? Do the problems occur if you load only the file you posted, instead of the full plan? Do the problems occur if you load the full file into 091c? Is anyone else seeing similar problems? regards, Martin. posted: 30 Jul 2011 19:36 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, I have tried Alan's plan in the latest development version of Templot and can report no abnormal results. Name labels go when they should, deleting templates is fine. Even putting the program under considerable strain by doing a group convert to a different scale work OK if a little slowly. Regards Rob posted: 1 Aug 2011 11:34 from: Alan McMillan Hi Martin Yes it was the programme panel and I'm sorry but I didn't now it was always there- my mistake. The full station layout plan runs to 858 templates and it works perfectly under 091c. I'm ...
105. ScaleThree
... and found the article by John Delaney and Stewart Hine proposing the ScaleThree standards. I've also searched around elsewhere but can find no mention of the standard- not even on the 3mm Society web site. Was this standard ever used- i.e. was a layout (layouts?) ever built? Jim. posted: 27 Dec 2007 22:46 from: Nigel Brown Hi Jim Don't know if any Scale Three layouts were actually built. One member of the 3mm Society has recently been testing the interest within the 3mm Society of developing things in this direction. He has produced several papers on the subject which are lodged on the Society Yahoo group; the group is, however, only open to Society members. No doubt if concrete interest is shown in this direction the relevant data could get added to the Technical Data bit of the Society's web site. If you're interested in finding out more, contact me off line and I'll forward your message to the person concerned. I think it's fair to say that an increasing proportion of 3mm Society members use the ...
... by selecting the edit> undo delete menu item on the storage box, but only if you have made no subsequent deletions from the box. regards, Martin. posted: 14 Dec 2007 01:29 from: mattots That's great, I didn't realise there were access keys set up for the menus. Just what I was looking for. Thanks. Matt posted: 15 Dec 2007 00:26 from: richard_t Martin Wynne wrote: There aren't enough conventional shortcuts to go round, unfortunately. regards, Martin. Microsoft's newer development tools now do two stage keypresses for shortcuts. It's a pain to relearn stuff, but it works. For example Debug/ Breakpoint list is CTRL D followed by B whilst the control key is still down. Debug/ Exceptions is CTRL D, E. A pain to implement I'd imagine. Richard. posted: 15 Dec 2007 03:24 from: Jim Guthrie richard_t wrote: Martin Wynne wrote: There aren't enough conventional shortcuts to go round, unfortunately. regards, Martin. Microsoft's newer development tools now do two ...
107. Tandem question
... :27 from: Martin Wynne Richard_Jones wrote: I've been working through the Tandem turnout video a step at a time and have a small query- do you always set the extra "vee" at 4.5? Hi Richard, The middle V-crossing angle has to be adjusted to match the rails. 1:4.5 is just a useful starting point. Generally with a bit of practice you can guess the angle quite closely. Note that this adjustment will be much easier in the next Pug -- why not join the development group and try it in the TDV? Gaunt turnouts are now available, mainly for this very purpose -- to provide a V-crossing as a partial template in which the crossing angle and turnout radius can be independently adjusted. template> gaunt options> gaunt turnout menu item. F9 adjusts the V-crossing angle. Set a curviform type of V-crossing, and then SHIFT-F12 adjusts the turnout radius via the gaunt offset. (These instructions are for TDV -- they won't work in 091c. ...
... you get logged in automatically. regards, Martin. posted: 25 Mar 2014 17:04 from: John Lewis Hi Martin I tried to access the forum using Windows 8.1 and IE11 and had a lot of trouble. Entering the url for this discussion, I got nowhere as IE truncated the url to remove the id. IE did ask me to make Yahoo my default (which I did not). I then tried simply entering 85a.co.uk/forum and got the first page, but when I tried clicking on the "Development Doings" heading, after a pause I got a "This page cannot be displayed" error. So I gave up. My default browser is Chrome. This may be down to my inexperience with IE11- I don't normally use it. And on this showing, I don't propose to change. :- )) Best wishes John posted: 25 Mar 2014 17:17 from: Brian Nicholls Hi Martin, Have just looked in the Firefox Cookie menu, see attached image below. As you will see, there ...
109. Switch Blades
... a Search box. I entered planing length and the first result in the list is the page to which I directed Graham. That's a long page, so instead of scrolling you can if you wish do CTRL-F on the page and quickly find planing length again. I also entered railway track switch planing length in Google, and guess which page came out top of the results? And it has to be in paper form. I'm not going to produce the Templot docs in any format which can't be updated as I develop the program. So printed paper is out, sorry, until Templot is finished. It's very easy to print it out yourself if you need it printed, and some parts of the Templot web site are available in PDF format for that very purpose. The latest version 091b of Templot has an updated viewer for the Help texts, which also includes improved printing functions. It's very clear from feedback that most users prefer the video format for learning about Templot. So my time and effort will be directed towards that for the ...
... has started. I was able to print the many A0 size sheets of paper that was generated by Templot to a PDF file, use these to help cut the benchwork to size and then glue them down to the plywood ready for track laying. It's been about 12 years since I handlaid any rail so I'll have to make a soldering jig to build the turnouts. Sleepers are being laid and this can be a very therapeutic exercise in its own right. I've added a photo to show some progress. Thanks to Martin for developing this exceptional piece of software and thanks to the many contributors on this forum who add to the understanding of using the tool. Attachment: attach_2427_3021_IMG_0551.JPG 491 posted: 9 May 2017 08:40 from: wcampbell23 Hi Rick That looks very intriguing, so now you have our attention, would you like to post a copy of the whole track plan? Regards. Bill Campbell. Last edited on 9 May 2017 08:40 by wcampbell23 posted: 9 May 2017 09:57 from: Rick wcampbell23 wrote: That looks very ...
... either machine. I think a fair few of the 300 downloads have been my attempts to re-download. I've just switched all Anti-virus, Anti-spyware, Pro-active Threat and Network Threat Protection off on my laptop to see if I have any success with another download. Regards Ian posted: 2 Jan 2012 23:59 from: Ian Allen No success there either. I've even placed Templot TDV into the list of programs allowed to communicate through Windows Firewall. File Version: 0.96.1.4704 Product Name: Templot2 Development Version 0.96a Product Version: 0.96a Windows 7 on my laptop, Windows Vista on the PC. Regards Ian posted: 3 Jan 2012 01:19 from: Martin Wynne Ian Allen wrote: Downloading the program to either PC or laptop is via my O2 wi-fi USB, the same as when I updated to Templot 0.91 and TDV #4505. Nothing has changed in respect of firewall settings on either machine. Hi Ian, Nothing has changed between #4505 and #4703 in the way they access the internet, ...
... mentioned Howard sounds like a real winner. As a virgin to all of this (I have filed up and soldered 2 vees in the last two weeks!) I find myself perplexed and overloaded with options as I am sure others have been particularly in the company this forum contains based on collectively thousands of vess and crossings of experience! As such, I have the jig, paid AU$49 for it actually and am keen not to have wasted that money. Should I be throwing that on eBay and hoping for the best while developing skills in one of the numerous methods offered by the vastly experienced here? Guidance most welcome on what to do tonight. Made a vee last night that frankly does not stack up to the level of scrutiny I would apply to such a critical item. I purchased a brand new file and have more than enough patience to learn how to perfect a given method. posted: 25 Jun 2008 18:18 from: Martin Wynne JFS wrote: Regarding your own exposure, where I used to work- also in the seventies ...
113. Platforms in TDV
... topic: 1547 Platforms in TDV posted: 20 Jun 2011 12:11 from: Martin Wynne Here's an example of the new real> platforms... function in the Templot Development Version (TDV). This is the workpad view. Several templates have had platforms added. The widths have been adjusted and some of the edges have been set not to show in the final output (they then show dotted on the pad). The template order has been set so that the platforms overlay each other in the required sequence: 2_200646_520000000.png I then used the new output> export a file... function to create a large PNG image file, 6000 dots wide. The tracks are drawn in the new output> diagram mode style instead of detailed templates. This is just a small part of it: 2_200646_520000001.png Then in a graphics editor program such as PaintShoPro, I resized it to 900 dots wide, with this neat result: 2_200646_520000002.png These image files from Templot can be opened in any graphics/drawing program to have the full details of ...
... topic: 3051 Direct loading of background maps posted: 23 Jul 2017 03:21 from: Martin Wynne Edit: please read all through this topic for up-to-date information. It describes the development process of this function, and the first messages do not necessarily represent the finished program. Well that was fun. How much actual use can be made of it remains to be seen. Lots of folks like to use maps as a background guide to their track planning. But it's not always straightforward to capture and merge multiple screenshots from the mapping web sites, and scale them accurately to match the model scale. So I thought it would be useful if Templot could load maps directly from the server. That way the map can be as large as you like, within reason, and Templot can do the scaling to your model scale automatically. The big fly in that ointment is the copyright and licensing restrictions on most mapping and aerial imagery web sites. But that doesn't apply to OpenStreetMap (OSM), so I have had a ...
... 29 May 2008 05:35 from: Martin Wynne Simon Dunkley wrote: Therefore I need to convert my dxf to a pdf file. Has anyone found some simple to use free software for this? Last time I searched, Google seemed to have been hijacked by people trying to sell me things other than what I wanted. After all, I am only really looking for a single use! Hi Simon, If you send me your BOX file (not DXF), I will create a PDF file for you using my development version of Templot. (PDF output is coming in the next Pug. This will be an interesting test for it.) regards, Martin. posted: 29 May 2008 12:06 from: Simon Dunkley Martin Wynne wrote: Simon Dunkley wrote: Therefore I need to convert my dxf to a pdf file. Has anyone found some simple to use free software for this? Last time I searched, Google seemed to have been hijacked by people trying to sell me things other than what I wanted. After all, ...
116. F7 snapping
... gizmos, but so far no-one has. regards, Martin. Hi Martin,No offence intended! Perhaps (and this is no criticism) the issue is that for people coming to Templot new, its difficult to understand the documentation/find out how to do something. I'm guessing the software has grown over the years and its a case of the documentation hasm't kept up, likely because from a time point of view its one or the other (been there, done that!) and in the end any developer would always go with making the software do what he/she/the users want, rather than writing documentation that may never be read. Another problem is probably us the users, being more interested in diving in and having a go, rather than sitting down and reading the manual to find out HOW we should be doing it! I really must have a read up on the snap functions for peg/align- which i'll be honest and say i did not know were there. However, if I may offer ...
117. 64-bit Computer
... : Martin Wynne Bob Ellis wrote: I believe that I will need a new code number in order to install Templot on my new computer. How do I acquire this number? Hi Bob, The paid-for versions of Templot were withdrawn in November. In future Templot will be available for use free of charge and supported by voluntary donations. I'm not issuing any more lock-release codes because very soon the new free version of Templot2 will be available. In the meantime you are welcome to download and use the Templot Development Version (TDV), see: topic 1731 Please read the relevant topic notes. Some of the new features are not yet finished but all the functions from the previous versions work exactly as before. All versions of Templot run of 64-bit versions of Windows 7. regards, Martin. posted: posted: 12 Jan 2012 14:33 from: Bob Ellis Thanks very much, Martin. I have not used Templot for more than a year (mainly due to protracted illness, from which I have now recovered ...
... for finding and reporting it. regards, Martin. posted: 3 Oct 2017 07:29 from: Phil O How many other software providers would provide such service, a bug reported and fixed in a little over 4 hours. Marvellous stuff Martin. Thanks Phil posted: 3 Oct 2017 17:38 from: d827kelly Phil O wrote: How many other software providers would provide such service, a bug reported and fixed in a little over 4 hours. Marvellous stuff Martin. Thanks Phil I can't think of many commercial software developers who'd have that sort of turn around. Only ones who might be as quick, would probably be Open Source projects using things like Git, where they can just roll back the changes that broke or patch in a fix a lot quicker potentially (assuming a fair amount of activity in terms of development of course). Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> I found a flaw> adjacent track centres about Templot Club Templot ...
... slip needs to be about 12192mm radius. Thanks, Ron Mitchell (v. confused, tried 5 or 6 times to get my head round it but finally gave up) Attachment: attach_1548_2121_Diamond_single_sl ip.box 283 posted: 11 Dec 2012 21:07 from: Martin Wynne Hi Ron, Welcome to Templot Club. Here you go, file attached below: 2_111604_000000000.png The slip road radius is 15796mm. Can you say which bit you were stumbling over? I can then add extra explanation. regards, Martin. Important: Before this topic develops further I wish to draw attention to paragraph 6 of the terms of use for Templot: http://templot.com/companion/index.html?terms_of_use.htm Any design, comment, suggestion or advice given by me is illustrative of the use of my Templot software only, and must not be relied on in the design of any railway track. Attachment: attach_1549_2121_herstmonceux_slip .box 295 posted: 11 Dec 2012 22:44 from: Ron Mitchell Hi Martin, that's fantastic! I got as far as step 5 in the Quick Guide, ...
... topic: 1745 Templot2- Terms of Use posted: 22 Dec 2011 12:55 from: Martin Wynne These are the amended terms of use for Templot2. TEMPLOT2 SOFTWARE -- TERMS OF USE Templot2 software is made available subject to the following terms: 1. Templot2 software is the result of thousands of hours of development work over many years. It is and remains the copyright intellectual property of Martin Wynne. Nothing in these terms of use changes that. 2. You may download and use the currently available version of Templot2 software on your own computer entirely free of charge. 3. You understand and agree that the Templot2 program will use your internet connection to confirm that you are using the latest version of Templot2 software. You understand and agree that use of out-of-date versions of Templot2 software is not permitted, and that you will obtain and use only the latest version. 4. You may not copy, publish, distribute, sell, hire out, lend, edit, modify, reverse engineer, disassemble, re- ...
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